Specify advanced settings

If you selected HDS or HLS delivery or both on the Basic Settings page, specify advanced settings on the Advanced Settings page.

Advanced settings for HDS Delivery
Format

To configure advanced settings for HDS Delivery format, select
one of the following for Segment/Fragment Duration.

KeyFrame Interval Based - Specify the number of key frames to
include in an HDS fragment. Akamai sets the fragment duration based on the incoming key
frame interval.

Time Based - Specify the fragment duration. This value should be
equal to, or a multiple of, your GOP interval. The default value is six seconds, which
would work for one-, two-, three-, and six-second GOP sizes. If your interval is different
from these values, set the appropriate value in this field. Setting this value incorrectly
could cause undesirable bitrate switch downs in HDCore versions lower than 2.8.

Advanced settings for HLS Delivery
Format

If you want Media Services Live to
automatically extract an audio-only stream from your lowest published bit rate, select
the Extract
Audio-Only check box. If you provide an audio-only stream, your stream
will take precedence, and no other audio-only stream will be extracted.

If you want to display an image when
the audio-only stream is played, check Thumbnail/Artwork Insertion for
Audio-Only Stream. An Insert Image section
appears.

Note: The
Thumbnail/Artwork will be added to the audio-only stream provided by you or the one
extracted if that option is turned on.

Thumbnail will only be inserted
in audio-only streams packaged in AAC/ADTS container.

Only .jpg
and .png format files of 40 kb or less are supported.

Select the location of your image with
the appropriate radio button in the Origin Type section:

Akamai NetStorage

A Select
File section appears with either one (Select New Image) or
two radio buttons (Currently Configured Image and Select New Image),
depending on whether you previously configured an image or not.

If
the Currently Configured
Image radio button is available, you can view the image by clicking
its name.

If you wish to use a new image, select the Select New Image radio
button and enter a NetStorage path to the image, or click Choose File to navigate
to the path.

Customer Origin

An Image
Path field appears. Enter the pathname of the image file on your
origin (pathnames using the HTTPS protocol are acceptable).

Activate or save your configuration

On the bottom of the Advanced Settings page, move the slider to select Activate on
Staging/Production.

Click either Production or Staging.

Production —
Activates the configuration on the production version of Control Center.

Staging —
Activates the configuration on the staging Control Center to enable testing.

The hostname and Archive/NetStorage
parameters are activated separately from each other and from the other configuration
parameters. These parameters are not activated on staging, only on
production.

Note: Staging hostnames are added automatically for all akamaihd.net domains to
test configurations on the staging network. For example, if your akamaihd hostname is
example-lh.akamaihd.net, your staging hostname will be example-lh.akamaihd-staging.net

The hostname and
Archive/NetStorage parameters are activated separately from each other and from the
other configuration parameters. These parameters are not activated on staging, only
on production.